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Talk to the top 1% of candidates only worth your time. Hire in 3 days.

No sourcing, no screening, no chasing candidates. Just show up to interview candidates who made it through our vetting. Only 1% do.

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Amara Okonkwo

Amara Okonkwo

Staff Backend Engineer

Previously at

stripe
Daniel Cho

Daniel Cho

Senior Product Designer

Previously at

Figma
Sofia Martins

Sofia Martins

ML Engineer

Previously at

DeepMind
James Whitfield

James Whitfield

Engineering Manager

Previously at

shopify
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Leverage world-class talent on demand

We have the largest distributed network of top business, design, and technology talent in Africa, ready to tackle your most important initiatives.

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Developers

Software engineers, architects, and specialists across hundreds of stacks — from backend systems to mobile and AI.

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Designers

Product, UI/UX, and brand designers who ship production interfaces, not just decks.

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Product Managers

Operators who turn ambiguous problems into shipped roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

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Data & AI

Data scientists, ML engineers, and applied researchers ready for production workloads.

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Marketing Experts

Growth, demand gen, and brand specialists who scale acquisition with accountability.

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Project Managers

Technical PMs and scrum leaders who keep complex delivery on track.

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Build exceptional teams, on demand

Build exceptional teams, on demand

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Hire Quickly

Hire in under 48 hours. Scale up or down, no strings attached. We offer flexible engagements from hourly to full-time.

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Only the top 1% talent

Every network member is rigorously tested and vetted: skills assessments, 1-on-1 interviews, live coding, integrity checks, and a take-home project.

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Talent matching that actually works

Our matching engine scores skills, seniority, timezone overlap, rate, availability, and integrity, and then explains why each candidate fits.

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No-risk trial

Start with a risk-free trial. Pay only if satisfied. If the fit isn’t right, we rematch you with another network member.

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Hiring made easy

From role brief to working talent — without the traditional recruiting grind.

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Tell us what you need

Share the role, stack, seniority, timezone, and engagement model. An industry specialist helps sharpen the brief.

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Review matched talent

Browse ranked profiles from the Sortie network — people who already passed. Skip re-screening unless you want a culture interview.

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Start with a trial

Engage the right person on a no-risk trial. Scale up, scale down, or rematch with no strings attached.

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Why less than 1% make the network

Every applicant goes through several steps. We check their skills, how they communicate, whether they are honest, and whether they can finish real work.

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Language and professionalism

We check that they speak clearly, work well with others, and can talk to clients.

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Skills tests

They take tests for the exact job. We score the work and see how they handle real tasks.

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Live interview and practical task

They sit a live interview with a real task for their field. They talk through the problem and show how they work.

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Honesty and a real project

We watch for cheating, then ask them to finish a real take-home project before they can join.

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Trusted by teams hiring across Africa

Founders, engineering leaders, and network members on what changes when vetting happens before the first intro.

Amelia

“We shortlisted three Sortie engineers in under 48 hours. The live coding playback sold the whole team.”

— Amelia, VP Engineering at Paystack

Dan

“Integrity checks matter to us. Sortie’s proctoring signals gave us confidence we weren’t gambling on resumes.”

— Dan, CTO at Flutterwave

Stephanie

“We were drowning in inbound applicants. Sortie sent people who had already cleared the hard part.”

— Stephanie, Head of Talent at Andela

Marie

“Flexible engagements without soft standards. Hourly to full-time, same vetting rigor every time.”

— Marie, CFO at Chipper Cash

Andre

“If I could give 11 stars for the rematch policy, I’d give 12. Zero drama when the first fit wasn’t right.”

— Andre, Design Lead at PiggyVest

Jeremy

“The AI interview notes plus scored assessments saved us weeks of screening calls.”

— Jeremy, Product Lead at Jumia

Pam

“Took some convincing from legal. Now that we’re on Sortie, we’re not going back to open job boards.”

— Pam, Marketing Director at Konga

Daniel

“Timezone-aware matching is underrated. Our Lagos and London pods finally stayed in sync.”

— Daniel, Data Science Lead at Interswitch

Fernando

“It’s just the best talent network we’ve used. Period.”

— Fernando, UX Lead at Carbon

Andy

“I joined the network after clearing the gauntlet. Clients already trust the badge — interviews go faster.”

— Andy, Staff Engineer at Cloudflare

Pete

“We’d been searching for senior React talent for months. Sortie delivered a shortlist in two days.”

— Pete, Sales Engineering at SeamlessHR

Marina

“The matching explanation told us why each candidate fit. No black-box rankings.”

— Marina, People Ops at Kuda

Meet talent in our network

Verified experts across engineering, design, product, and more.

Discover more talent
Amara Okonkwo

Amara Okonkwo

Verified Expert in Engineering

Staff Backend Engineer

Expertise

  • PostgreSQL
  • Go
  • Distributed Systems

Previously at

stripe
Daniel Cho

Daniel Cho

Verified Expert in Design

Senior Product Designer

Expertise

  • Product Design
  • Design Systems
  • Prototyping

Previously at

Figma
Sofia Martins

Sofia Martins

Verified Expert in AI

ML Engineer

Expertise

  • PyTorch
  • LLM Ops
  • Python

Previously at

DeepMind
James Whitfield

James Whitfield

Verified Expert in Leadership

Engineering Manager

Expertise

  • Team Leadership
  • Platform
  • Hiring

Previously at

shopify
Priya Nair

Priya Nair

Verified Expert in Engineering

Full-Stack Engineer

Expertise

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • React

Previously at

Vercel
Lucas Berger

Lucas Berger

Verified Expert in Security

Security Engineer

Expertise

  • AppSec
  • Zero Trust
  • Threat Modeling

Previously at

Cloudflare
Ngozi Adeyemi

Ngozi Adeyemi

Verified Expert in Product

Senior Product Manager

Expertise

  • Roadmapping
  • 0-to-1
  • Growth

Previously at

Flutterwave
Kwame Mensah

Kwame Mensah

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Engineer

Expertise

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes

Previously at

Andela

Expert skillsets, ready to hire

ReactNode.jsPythonGoTypeScriptAWSKubernetesSystem DesignMachine LearningProduct DesigniOSAndroidDevOpsData EngineeringSecurityGrowth MarketingNext.jsPostgreSQLRustJavaSpring BootC#.NETRuby on RailsPHPLaravelDjangoFastAPIGraphQLgRPCRedisMongoDBSnowflakedbtApache SparkAirflowTerraformDockerAzureGCPCI/CDObservabilityLLM EngineeringRAG SystemsPrompt EngineeringMLOpsComputer VisionNLPFigmaDesign SystemsUX ResearchUI DesignMotion DesignSwiftKotlinFlutterReact NativeCybersecurityAppSecZero TrustSEOPaid MediaProduct ManagementAgile CoachingSalesforceShopifyBlockchainSolidityData AnalyticsPower BITableau

Top talent is in high demand.

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